The revelation was made on Thursday by the leaders of the APC at the second-term inauguration ceremony of Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State.
Punch reported that the leaders who graced the occasion include the former head of state, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); ex-Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu; a former Interim Chairman of the APC, Bisi Akande.
APC leaders at Governor Rauf Aregbesola ‘s second term inauguration ceremony
The leaders of the party reportedly revealed that President Jonathan will leave the Presidency in 2015, adding that most Nigerians were tired of the President and would rather replace him with an APC president in 2015.
“This revolution will take care of the elderly ones, create employment and to generate enough electricity and not to lie like they are telling lies from Abuja. The coming election in February, anybody who has charms must prepare very well. If you can use rings fortified with charms, do it; prepare waistbands and the likes. It is not going to be easy to defeat them. I am grateful to my mother who is in heaven. I was not trained to be a coward. We are ready for them,” he said.
Tinubu condemned the PDP-led Federal Government for attempting to rig the Osun State governorship poll, describing the deployment of 30,000 armed policemen in the state for the election as a shameless act. He bragged that the APC would reclaim the mandate allegedly stolen by the PDP in Ekiti State.
Speaking also at the event, Buhari, who is a leading presidential aspirant of the APC remarked that after APC lost Ekiti state in June 21, as well as the ousting of Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, Osun people raised the party’s supporters morale by re-electing Aregbesola.
Mrs. Titi Abubakar, who represented her husband, former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, congratulated Aregbesola and solicited the support of Nigerians for the APC in 2015.
Governor Aregbesola, while delivering his speech at the ceremony explained that the party represents progress and development while the PDP was a symbol of insecurity, poverty and retrogression.
“Our party, the APC promises prosperity, national unity and integration, security of lives and property, job and wealth creation, rule of law and constitutionalism and deepening of democracy. All these have been showcased in all the states where our party holds sway in Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti (until recently), Edo, Imo, Rivers, Kwara, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Borno and Yobe. This is what we stand for and this is why a greater number of Nigerians continue to accept us and identify with us. Our present travails therefore are temporary. The PDP on the other hand stands for poverty, misery and insecurity. They are prepared to sacrifice the entire country as long as their hold on power is intact. Come February next year, Nigerians are going to say enough is enough. We are going to beat them because they are beatable. The God that helped us to beat them in Osun will also beat them for us in the national election. Do not be afraid, do not despair. Victory is at hand,” he said.
Meanwhile, Governor Aregbesola, who got his second term when he was declared winner of the August 9 governorship election in the state, was sworn in alongside his deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori by the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Ojo, who also administered the oath of office on the two.
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